[Krikri20]

I was stupid enough to install a trial Winxp on my computer while still using win2000. It worked for a while, but then it (xp) stopped working. When trying to reinstall xp, I accidentially just installed it again, and the result is that I now have three os' on my computer. Two xp versions that don't boot, and a win2000 that works perfectly. But I want to remove the xp versions to free up space, and Id like to keep win2000 for now. I don't have the xp cd anymore, but I do have the win2000 cd-rom. I have no idea how to do this. help please?

[jaclaz]

Each operating system should have it's own System directory and it's own boot.ini entry.
You just open the boot.ini file that you can find on your First active primary partition, i.e. C:
Read here:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...ndpost&p=226081
http://www.msfn.org/...showtopic=43748
http://www.msfn.org/...showtopic=25365
There should be THREE entries:
one for "Windows 2000 Professional" (probably going to C:\WINNT)
one or two for "Windows XP" (probably going to C:\WINDOWS)

You can delete the lines NOT referring to Windows 2000 and delete the folders NOT pointed to in the Windows 2000 entry.

You could still have some "remains" of the XP installs, like some directories.

I haven't handy an XP install to compare with the Win2k one, maybe someone that have both can give you more exact info.

jaclaz

[BrandonS_Mil]

Easy ----

Backup; format; reload...


Hard ----

Remove peice by peice, think you have it all, then find more and remove those pieces, then it might get unstable...


Too much work if you ask me....

[jaclaz]

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Easy ----

Backup; format; reload...

Do you mean:
Backup; format; reinstall from scratch...?


Otherwise it seems pretty unuseful, to back-up, format and reload (from backup), you did a lot of work to have a system that is identical to the one you had before!


jaclaz

[Krikri20]

Hmmm. I removed the lines referring to xp in boot.ini, and backed up the following folders: Programfiles, Windows og Documents and settings (leaving the profiles win 2k uses), then deleted them. It freed some space, but surely there must be lots of files that are just sitting there, doing nothing. How do I find out which os they belong to?
Everything seems to be working as normal, and it does seem like I now have only on os, which is good at least.

[jaclaz]

From your post I gather you did not remove the
C:\windows ( should be the WinXP install)
keeping just the:
C:\winnt (should be the Win2k main install)

jaclaz